Microscopic
menu of a Midge larva
- by Wim van Egmond, The Netherlands

Microscopic
menu á la carte

as
a starter - a small plate with water fleas

the
main dish - a bowl with 2 species of shelled amoebae, Arcella sp. and Lesquereusia
spiralis, a real delicacy we can compare with eating escargots.

as
a dessert - a light salad (yes, in the micro world things tend to be quite different
than in our macroscopic world) made of several algae, not just green algae but
conjugating green algae, again showing the fine taste of the consumer. We can
clearly see the desmid Netrium digitum and a nice filamentous alga, perhaps
a Spirogyra but the chloroplast has already been digested.